New Youtube Tweek Allows High Quality Playback By **DEFAULT**

[tworegon]

On youtube's forums, I found this interesting post by a youtube employee. Note part boldfaced:
This also works by editing your tags on videos already uploaded. I just fixed a whole bunch of my older videos that lost the stereo (which forced me to tell people about the &fmt=18 trick, and create a separate link in the user comments).

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-howto/browse_thread/thread/08a9062509a070a0#[/url]

New options for Uploaders!


In our Team's continued effort to give you ultimate control over how
your videos are presented, uploaders can now tweak (modify) the
appearance of their video when played on YouTube or in an embedded
player. Just insert any of the hint tags below into the tags field of
your video when you're uploading it, and you'll be able to format the
video to the following specifications:


Tag: yt:crop=16:9
(zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing)


Tag: yttretch=16:9
(fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)


Tag: yttretch=4:3
(fixes 720x480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to
4:3)


Tag: yt:quality=high
(default to a high quality stream, depending on availability)

Thought this info would be useful Happy uploading!


~ Liz

[noemi7]

Thanks but what should be the optimum video bitrate to ensure that You Tube won't re-convert the file?

[manono]

There is none. They reencode everything.

[noemi7]

so I thought, manono